SMALL NOTE: I know I said that I will blog about recommended graduate schools as a follow-up to my previous blog entry but that's taking a bit of research on my side. I am also hiring now, so I suppose blogging about what I'm currently doing might help me spread the word. Aaand there's a third reason, which I will explain at the end of this post. So for those who were expecting my list of recommended graduate schools, my apologies. I will get to that soon, I promise.
WARNING: Super long More >

This blog post has been in the making for about a couple of years now, when I first received a Facebook private message from a former student who wanted to go to graduate school. I just never got around to writing it until I noticed that the question has been coming up more often, not just from students who would visit me at the office but also from colleagues in the game development firm that I worked for last year.

There is this meme that has been going around the internet about what a lot of purebred industry practitioners say:

The full quotation is:

Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.

In the essence of fairness, I don’t even want to know who said this. I might meet him someday and judge him as small-minded based on this ignorant statement alone when this could have been an isolated case of temporary insanity. But here are the things that many purebred industry practitioners do not know More >

After containing the Great Undead Fever of 1948 across the West, Bonnie and Johnny Loca were ready to retire and take a well-earned vacation. That is, until they discovered that the zombie pandemic had spread overseas! Help More >

PROJECT NAME: Puzzle Pets Adventure
CLIENT: Gamoji/6Waves
ROLE: Producer for Anino Games
PLATFORM: Facebook
FIRST RELEASE: End of March 2012
OFFICIAL FACEBOOK PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/puzzlepetsadventure
AWARD: Philippine Game Development Festival 2012 Best Browser Game

DESCRIPTION (from the Official FB Page):
Puzzle Pets Adventure is a strategic puzzle game to use pets to go for battle to challenge other players all over the world. Play and battle with friends now!